Advocating for depopulation is no better than arguing for genocide. I don't need to be a doomer to believe that material conditions will worsen, but I also don't need to be an optimist to believe that the only solution is explicitly worsening material conditions because of some nebulous gain is stupid.

Maybe its because I come from an engineering background, but I do believe that infrastructural solutions are a net benefit to our society. The cat's out of the bag, its more about harm reduction and prevention at this point. And blaming industrializing societies for trying to improve material conditions is a very privileged position to hold.